JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Mescaline1337 Ohh what a movie and trilogy, this is truly a masterpiece. As a guy who is in touch with drugs and people from that environment I can say that director and actors did a great job. A story about 2 best friends(Frank and Tonny), small dealers, who suddenly had an a opportunity to do a big job with drugs and earn some nice and easy money. So basically, Frank took a kilo or something of heroin from a local drug lord boss and Serbian immigrant(Milo) and told him that he will be back in a hour with money. But sadly for Frank, when he went to a meeting with a guy to sell him a heroin, police was there... Frank flied with heroin while cops was chasing him and when there was no more space for him to run, he threw heroin in the lake in front of the cops. He was released from prison because no evidence, but problem for Frank now starts because he needs to pay the money for a heroin which he got from Milo. And here the story begins..This is one of the best movies and trilogy I ever saw and cast was just amazing, especially Zlatko Buric and Kim Bodnia. 10/10

dragokin Although i've heard only good things about Pusher, it took me several years to pick it up. The result was surprisingly good.The movie is shot almost as a documentary, which is well suited for the subject it depicts. Unlike hip-hop videos advertising gangster lifestyle, Pusher shows us the reality of a low level drug dealer. There is no glamor, but rather hard labor without strict working hours providing questionable financial gain.Serbian gangsters are depicted rather realistically, presumably due to Slavko Labović'S experience as bouncer and mingling in the appropriate milieu.Despite its independent funding, Pusher is rubbing shoulders with the best gangster movies of all times.

thebogofeternalstench Forget all the crappy glossy American gangster films like The Godfather, Pusher is much more real to life and brutal.I saw Pusher in 2004 on DVD after I was highly impressed with Bleeder, another of Refn's masterpieces.Pusher follows Frank, a drug dealer who gets in a spot of bother with Milo, a drug kingpin, when Frank accidentally loses/has to get rid of a stash of Heroin bought on credit from Milo (who he already owes money too) after the cops chase after him through the street.He then has a short amount of time to recover the financial and moral loss to Milo otherwise he's in the $hit, his life being at stake.A fantastically acted film with a 100$ fluid plot that really does keep you intrigued, that's what I love about Refn. The whole film oozes with originality, pace and substanceA brilliant Danish film, from a British reviewer.

lastliberal I just watched Kim Bodnia in Terribly Happy, and went looking for some of his older stuff. This film interested me because it tells the story of a drug dealer who gets in trouble with his boss (Zlatko Buric).In order to get out of trouble, he goes deeper and deeper into madness. He even uses his girlfriend (Laura Drasbæk).He's in the hole for 230,000 and has a murder hanging over him.He makes a deal to get out, but his girlfriend takes his money. Now what? Well, you won't know until the next film.Buric was great. Bodnia was not as good as he was in Terribly happy, but he still presented a great character that just seemed short of a sociopath.